Article on Absorbing South Australia’s Wills Act Dispensing Power in the United States: Emulation, Resistance, Expansion

John H. Langbein recently posted an Article entitled, Absorbing South Australia’s Wills Act Dispensing Power in the United States: Emulation, Resistance, Expansion, Wills, Trusts, & Estate Law eJournal (2017). Provided below is an abstract of the Article:

How the spread of the dispensing power — South Australia’s excusing doctrine to cure formal errors in wills — has led to enforcement of electronic (digital) wills in the US and elsewhere.